Car-seat.



F. BENNETT.

CAR SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 8. 1913. RENEWED OCT. 23. 1917.

1,267A99. Patented May 28,1918.

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FREDERICK BENNETT, OF RAVENSVVOOD, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO WALKER &

BENNETT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORA- TION OF NEW YORK.

GAR-SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 28, 1918.

Application filed January 8, 1913, Serial No. 740,886. Renewed October 23, 1917. Serial No. 198,183.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK BENNn'rr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ravenswood, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in car-seats, and the object of the invention is to improve upon the construction of the car seat shown'and described in my co-pending application, Serial Number 727,380 filed October 23, 1912, car seats, in certain details, hereinafter described, and the main object of the invention is to provide means for more securely bracing and rigidly maintaining in proper position, the seat end plate, to which the seat arm is attached, and to provide means whereby the seat and con tained mechanism may be bodily removed from its supports, and further to provide means whereby in the particular construction shown, the tie-rods are prevented from sliding in their bearings when the seat is rocked to vertical position.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a front view of the seat.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the seat in rocked position, and

Fig. 3 is a broken vertical sectional view of the aisle end of the seat.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the lower portion of the pedestal or aisle support for the seat. The numeral 2 designates the upper portion of the pedestal or support, which comprises a yokeshape member having two arms 3 and a substantially horizontal portion 4:, which portion 4 rests upon the top of the pedestal 2 and is rockably held thereon by a clip 5, securely bolted to the lower part of the pedestal. Centrally positioned upon the horizontal portion of the upper part of the pedestal, is a stud 6 which extends through a slot 7 in the clip, whereby the rocking movement of the seat is limited, obviously by engagement of the stud with the lower end of the slot. The numeral 8 designates the aisle end plate of the seat and to the upper part of the pedestal or support, I provide a T-casting 12, the vertical part 13 of which extends over and embraces for a considerable distance, the end of each arm 3, and through the horizontal portion of the T-casting, the tie-rods 14 extend. These tie-rods 14 extend between the aisle and wall end plates, 8 and 15.

The plate 15 rests in a bracket when the seat is in normal position, which bracket is indicated by the numeral 16, but since the construction of this bracket is fully described in my co-pending application hereinbefore referred to, no further reference may be made to it in this application.

The aisle end plate of the seat in the completed article, has secured to it usually, merely by the ends of the tie-rods, a seat arm, which extends'sufliciently high above the plate, to bring about a very considerable leverage upon the end plate, when the usual pressure is brought against it, by the occupant of the seat and therefore, it is advantageous to so brace the end plate, that there will be no twisting or torsional strain upon the end plate, and its contained mechanism. For this reason and others, that will presently be explained, I provide the arm 9, which is rigidly secured to the lower portion of the end plate 8 and has its other end rigidly secured to the threaded standard 6, thus providing a support for the lower end of the plate. The plate 9 and its connection also prevents the tie-rods from sliding through the T casting, when the seat is rocked to vertical position, and it also establishes a rigid or solid connection between the seat and pedestal parts, whereby the seat is prevented from being removed bodily from the pedestal until the nut is removed, which obviously will permit the seat to be lifted bodily in a vertical direction, in which operation the vertical parts of the T castings may be readily slid off of the arms of the upper part of the pedestal.

To remove the seat bodily from the pod estal, it is only necessary to remove the nut 11, when the seat, and contained mechanism may be readily lifted from its supports. This is not usually necessary except in cases Where it is desired to remove the seat bodily for repairs, etc., but the parts are so arranged that the working of the seat to make a clearance between the wall of the car and the aisle pedestal, is in no Way interfered with, since the bracing and sustaining parts described and the parts which facilitate and make possible the removal of the seat, Will be in no way interfered With.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is 1. A oar-seat having one end detachably supported, a pedestal, and end plate, a standard, a rigid link between said end plate and standard, a yoke hingedly connected to the pedestal, a T-head casting slidably-connected to each arm of said yoke, tierods extending through said T-head castings connecting the ends of the seat, a stud carried by the yoke, and means detachably connecting one end of the seat to said stud, whereby the seat may be lifted from its respective supports.

2. A car-seat having one end detachably supported, tie-rods connecting the ends of the seat, tie rod mountings, said tie rods mounted therein, a pedestal, a yoke hinged to the pedestal and having its arms slidably connected to the tie rod mountings, a stud on the yoke, a plate connecting the end of the seat with said stud, and means for disconnecting the plate from the stud, so as to permit the seat to be removed from its supports. e

3. A car seat, comprising inner and, outer end plates connected by tie-rods, means for supporting the inner plate detachably adjacent to the wall of the car, a pedestal com prising a base, adapted for attachment to the floor of a car, and an upper portion having upwardly extending arms and a connecting portion, a clip embracing the connecting' portion and having aslot therein, a stud carried by the connecting portion and Working in said slot for the purpose described, T-castings having their vertical portions embracing the upper ends of the upper part of the pedestal and their hori-' zontal portions embracing the tie-rods, and an arm connecting the outer end plate with the stud, whereby an additional support is provided for the end plate and the tie-rods are prevented from sliding through their bearings when the seat is rocked to vertical position.

4. A car seat having one end detachably supported, a pedestal, a yoke hinged to said pedestal, said yoke having'arms connected to the other end of said seat, an end plate, means connecting said end plate to said yoke, and means. for normally connecting the rockable end of said seat to the yoke, whereby the seat may be rocked upon said pedestal.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK BENNETT.

Witnesses C. M. HARDY, JOHN J. DONOVAN.

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